Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3,659, Morgan Ford, Penn.

SERVICE
Penn.
2 Ford, Morgan
NUMBER
R. 3659
CONTENTS
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th. 1832.
State of Ohio
Clermont County
On this first day of May 1835 personally appeared in Open Court before the Court of Common Pleas of Clermont County State of Ohio now sitting Morgan Ford a resident of the Washington Township in the County of Clermont in said State of Ohio aged Seventy one years who being first duly sworn according to law sets on his oath that the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
He was born in on the second day of June in the year 1763 in Chester County in the State of Pennsylvania he has his name birth registered in his bible. He entered the service of the United States as a private and volunteer in on the 10th of July the year 1777 he cannot remember the year but knows that at the time of his entering said he was fourteen  sixteen years of age on the 2 d day of June next preceding under the Command of Captain Isaac and Maj. Taylor Marshall William Arnot was Lieutenant on the 1 st of Sept r who in the same year he was called out on a tour of duty, company met at Clinton here west Bradford Chester County Pennsylvania and marched from there Chaddston where they were on parade nearly four engagements at Brandywine in September 1777 they were attacked by the British. Declarant was in the battle under the command of General Washington and received a wound in that battle in his right arm from a musket ball, received the

Wound while on a retreat, declarant belonged to the believed to be Second regiment all the time he was out on this tour of duty
Since the order of battle was as follows first the cannon level with the water the regulars were right behind the cannon & then the volunteers and then the militia The battle began about 8 o'clock in the day & lasted till about 12 or 1 o'clock The Americans retreated & fought a running fight for about five miles to Brimsfield. Brimsfield has a meeting house where the Americans broke & retreated to their quarters above Lancaster. Declarant did not go to their quarters but went out with a scouting party & went to the Brimsfield Burying Ground. He saw James Smith, in the night and other places in Chester County Pennsylvania looking for birds. Declarant continued with the scouting party where he was called on to go for about six months until the British left Philadelphia and went on to farm in the intervals of his service Sometimes he was at the country with which he served would leave home on a scouting party and stay for a week or two weeks. He truly believes that adding adding all the different tours of actual service every day from his time there in the Revolutionary war when added together were not less than six months. He believes they were so near the end of the time. Captain Isaac Marshall Commaned the scouting party in which declarant belonged. Then the order of the scouting party to which he belonged were Marshall, New York, West, and others Lark, and others  of the Pennsylvania and others He cannot give the different days he was out

on the scouting party. Sometimes they would stay remain a day & then receive orders to move down at the House & start on another expedition. As He never was at home more than at a time any one day while he belonged to the scouting party.
He belonged to the the minute men and sometimes did not get home till he was called out again - sometimes he would not be at home an hour - sometimes half a day - before he was called out on another tour of duty. He had a written discharge from Captain Marshall and got fifty dollars in cash money - for for his service as a officer of the Revolution. He was paid at the rate of six dollars a month part of which he has yet at his house two bills of two dollars each printed on paste board.
He knows of no person whose testimony he can produce who can testify to his service. From Clermont County he moved to Red Stone Settlement where he lived about thirty years - from there he moved to Eagle Creek in Adams County Ohio, then he moved into Pierson County about two miles above Ripley - from there he moved to Clermont County in which County he has been since lived for the time of nine or ten years past. He never went out as a substitute and always went as a volunteer. James  James  Bennett  Bennett , John  George  Gregg  William  Matthew  Matthew  John  John know him in his present neighborhood and can testify to his character for veracity and he believes each of them will state that they believe he was a soldier of the Revolution. He hereby relinquishes every claim whosoever to any pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll.

of the agency of any State.
Sworn to in open Court May 9th 1835
Chas. Morgan for D
for Alonzo Church
For as Alonzo Church (a clergyman residing in Franklin Township (Clermont County State of Ohio) and James Bennett George Gregg and William M. Sawyer residing in Washington Township in the same County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Alonzo Church who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that he believes him to be twenty one years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. James Bennett George Gregg William M. Sawyer Alonzo Church
Joseph Gwynne J.P.
I do hereby certify that Alonzo Church minister of the Gospel personally came before me and testified as is stated in the above certificate, given under my hand and seal at the township of Franklin Clermont County Ohio. This 12th day of May 1835
Patric Hargreaves J.P.

The United States of America
State of Ohio Clermont County ss.
On this twenty second day of May in the year one hundred and one thousand eight hundred and forty one personally appeared in open court before the Court of Common Pleas of Clermont County this now in session Morgan Ford a resident of said County of Clermont who being first duly sworn on his oath makes the following declaration in order the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832 That he was born as he sincerely believes on the second day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty three and will be seventy four years of age if he lives until the the second day of June eighteen hundred and sixty five. He was born in West Bradford Township Chester County in the State of Pennsylvania That he entered the service of the United States as a Private and volunteer on the fourth day of July in the year eighteen hundred and forty seven at a place called the Centre House in West Bradford Township in said County of Chester and State of Pennsylvania under the command at first of Abraham Heard who for a short time only was his Captain and after that his brother Isaac also was the Captain of the Company to which this declarant belonged John Taylor was Colonel of the Regiment that this this declarant belonged to. On the taken at Fort Nance was the place of rendezvous of the company that this declarant belonged to On the ninth day of September in the year eighteen hundred and forty seven the regiment and company to which this declarant belonged as a volunteer were called and they marched from their

above named Centre Tavern about five miles down to the Fork of Brandywine by means of a by road to a place called Cladd's Ford where the encamped on the Brandywine bottom, the next day they also encamped there and the third day rode to the Battle of Brandywine It commenced between eight and Nine O'Clock in the morning. The battle was principally between the regulars and the British The militia were not much engaged and were about two miles back from the regular troops The regulars lay right on top of the bank and the volunteers laid just behind the regulars in line and the militia behind them a little off to the left. The battle lasted till nearly two O'Clock in the afternoon during the engagement This Detachment fired five or six rounds and was under the command of the same Captain and Colonel above named who also were present at the battle. The British gave ground until they got back to a place called Brandywine Meeting House and at that place General Washington ordered a retreat and for the regulars to go to Head Quarters which were then held at Lancaster and for the volunteers to scatter and take care of themselves. This Detachment and the Company to which he belonged retreated to Centre Tavern which Detachment reached about five down on the same day. of the battle The Company did not march in regular order. When the Company got gathered together the next day or the day after he does not remember in which the Company was again called out into service to quell the Tories who became very troublesome soon after the battle above named and continued in said service for better than six months

which he knows very well from the fact that he was entitled to eight dollars per month and at the end of his service he received in pay for said service the sum of fifty dollars in continental paper. The duty of the Company that the declarant belonged to was to range through East Bradford West Bradford New Lyons and all the border townships in Chester County Pennsylvania They went sometimes into Goshen Township but did not go there much. While this declarant was out in this service which he performed as a minute man, some time after Christmas he and some other men of the Company belonged to went in pursuit of a party of one of the men was named Hadly Baldwin & another James Smith after he had pursued him some time this declarant overtook him being on a horse & in advance of the rest of the men were in pursuit of him he grabbed his gun as this declarant went having lost his flint he missed fire this declarant rode up to him and took him prisoner and he was taken to the house of James Smith & put under guard for the night. In the night he made his escape but was pursued over taken, taken to Fort Chester & there executed. William Atkinson was Lieutenant of the Company that this declarant belonged to does not remember the name of his Major or other officers except that he has now died. After the Battle of Brandywine he was not at home one day for this whole term of duty but on the contrary he was actively engaged frequently both day & night in the service of the United States principally in pursuing Tories. During the above period he had no time to labor - and did not go to

during that time that he was out on said town of duty. This declarant is certain that he was in said town of duty for a period of at least thirty months. And he is the more certain of this from the fact that he did actually receive fifty Dollars Contant Money for his said town of duty. His marches and countermarches were so numerous and irregular that he cannot state them with precision. He does not remember the names of any of the regular officers who were with the troops where he served.
He has no record of his age. He has a written discharge signed by his officers on this town of duty and also a certificate of his oath of allegiance to the United States.
He left them for several years and both have been worn out & lost for twenty years at least. After the war of the Revolution was over he lived in said County of Chester for about  thirty years and from thence he moved to Red Stone Settlement near Brownsville where he lived and followed the business of Boat building twenty six years and from thence he moved to Adams County Ohio from thence to Brown County Ohio and from thence into Clermont County Ohio in which County he has resided for the last thirty years and last part. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Morgan Ford
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court May 22. 1841 Abraham Morris Clerk

Rejected did not serve six months in a military capacity. See letter 3 Jan 1835 to Mrs Gollifer.

Abraham Ohio
Rejected
See letter Hon. W. A. D.
did not perform his most actual service.
3659
Act 9 June 1832

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
3659  am
P. O. _____
Morgan Ford
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Ohio. May 29. Dataria. 33 May 22 nd 33
Applications of Leonard Leeker, Morgan Ford and William Jones for pensions under the law of June 7 th 1832.
Free
To J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D. C.

Batavia Ohio May 22 nd 1935
Dear
I herewith enclose the application of Jonas McCracken, Clayton Ford and William Toner for admission under the act of June 7 th 1932.
I am in very respectfully your det. servt. Geo. H. Miller
Y. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D. C.

Clermont Com. plus May Term 1841-
"On this 22 nd day of May 1841 before the Court of Common pleas of Clermont County Ohio now in session personally appeared Morgan Ford an applicant for a pension under the law of June 7 th 1832. And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after an investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department that the said Morgan Ford was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that John H. Taylor and John Phillips who have testified in behalf of the said Morgan Ford are credible persons who reside in Clermont County Ohio and that their statements in his behalf are entitled to credit"
The State of Ohio § Clermont County } S.S. J. D. Morris Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that the above is truly abstracted from the minutes of the Court of Common pleas of the County of Clermont and State of Ohio at the May Term thereof A.D. 1841 the same being the action of said Court on the application of Morgan Ford for a pension and that the attached declaration of Morgan Ford and deposition of John H. Taylor and John Phillips are the original papers presented sworn to and subscribed in said Court by them respectively. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court of Common pleas at Batavia in said County this 3 rd day of June A.D. 1841-
J. D. Morris W.R.

32.948 Morgan Ford Ohio.

State of Ohio Clermont County ss.
Personally appeared in Open Court before the Court of Common Pleas of Clermont County Ohio now in session John H Taylor a resident of said County aged forty eight years who being duly sworn according to law on his oath states that he is acquainted with Morgan Ford and as he is informed an applicant for a pension and has been acquainted with the said Morgan Ford for about five years and last heard that the said Morgan Ford is generally reputed and believed in the neighborhood in which he lives to have been a soldier of the Revolution. This deponent lives about one  10 years of age a neighbor of the said Morgan Ford. in the year eighteen hundred and thirty seven, and since that time this deponent has been frequently here as to the same neighborhood to visit this deponent's father who lives near the said Morgan Ford. This deponent is very well acquainted in the neighborhood in which he the said Ford resides in addition to his reputation as a soldier of the Revolution this deponent believes that he sustains a good character as a man of truth.
John H. Taylor
Sworn to & subscribed
in open Court May 22. 1841
Wirt H. Morris CLK
Also at the same time and place came in his brother perum John Phillips of said County aged fifty three years who being duly sworn according to law on his oath states that he the said John Phillips is well acquainted with Morgan Ford above named and has been

well acquainted with him for the time of twenty years and last part and that during all that period he has lived not more than two miles from the said M c Clanahan Ford and for the year now last past not more than one mile from him and that during said time of twenty years the said M c Clanahan Ford has generally been respected and beloved by his neighbors & others who know him & have been a soldier of the Revolution in which period this document fully concurs and the said M c Clanahan Ford has further sustained & does yet sustain a good character as a man of truth among his neighbors & others who know him: in which period this document fully concurs - This document further states that the said M c Clanahan Ford is an accepted member in good standing in the Christian Church - And further he says not.
Jno Phillips
Sworn to & subscribed on or about May 22. 1841 Attest J. H. Morris W.

Clermont, Common Pleas May Term AD 1835 1835
"Be it remembered that at this May Term of the Court of Common Pleas of Clermont County, State of Ohio in the year 1835 personally appeared in open Court before the Court aforesaid Morgan Ford an applicant for a pension under the law of June 7 th 1832 and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after seeing that the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department have been properly answered that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states And the Court further certifies that Monzo Knowles who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in Franklin Township Clermont County, State of Ohio and that James Bennett George Gregg and William McKeylor who have also signed the same are residents of Washington Township in said County and are credible persons and their statement is entitled to credit"
The State of Ohio Clermont County } ss Jonathan D Morris Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County, and State aforesaid do hereby certify that the above is a true extract from the minutes of said Court of Common Pleas of Clermont County, State of Ohio at their term of May AD 1835 thereof the proceedings had before said Court on the application of Morgan Ford for a pension and that the attached papers are the originals and that Joseph Grayson John Sargent and Justices of the peace above and that their signatures which were before said Court. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court of Common Pleas at Batavia this 22 nd day of May AD 1835 J. D. Morris Clerk
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